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Tbunday. Owwobw 11. IMO-EINCS MOUMTAIM HERAIO-Pog* 3A Mounties Sweep North, Bums Here On Friday Kings Mountain’s Moun taineers kept pace with R-S Cen tral and East Rutherford in the race for first place in the Southwestern 3-A Conference Tuesday night at North Gaston, scoring a 64-57 victory over the Wildcats. The victory was the third straight in conference play and fifth straight overall for the Mountaineers, who are off to their fastest start in years under veteran coach John Blalock. Kings Mountain’s girls made it a clean sweep in the opener, claiming a 46-33 victory to run their SWC record to 2-1 and overall mark to 3-2. Junior Demetrius Goode had his best game of the year for the Mountaineers, scoring a game- high 17 points. Todd Wray add ed IS points and Gerald Byers II. Calvin Friday scored IS and Greg Mackey 12 for the Wildcats. Kings Mountain jumped out front early and led the entire ballgame. The Mounties were out front 16-11 after the first period, 34-24 at halftime and SO-41 going into the fourth period. 9PORT? Diane Williams scored 16 points and Arjuana Curry came off the bench to hit for 10 more to lead the Mountainettes to vic tory. Dixie Friend of North Gaston was the game’s top scorer with 19 points, but she was the only Lady Wildcat in double figures. The big difference in the game was an 11 -4 burst by the Moun tainettes in the first period. North Gaston stayed with the Mountainettes the rest of the way but could never recover from KM’s fast start. The two KMHS clubs play a key SWC doubleheader here Fri day night against Bums. Both Bums clubs are 2-1 in the con ference and have been im pressive in early-season play. The Kings Mountain girls, off to one of their best starts in years, will have some added in centive going into Friday night’s ballgame. The Mountainettes have never beaten Bums since the Lady Bulldogs joined the Southwestern 3-A Conference, and the KM ladies hope they can give their coach, David Brinkley, a former Bums coach, an early Christmas present. Bums is coached by Tommy Pmette, a former coach at Kings Mountain Junior and Senior High. GIRLS GJUi«E KM (46) — Williams 16, Goode 9, Bolton 1, Glass 4, Hamrick 6, Curry 10. NG (33) — Harris 3, Friend 19, McBee 4, Hoyle 6, Herndon 2. BOYS GAME KM (64) — Smith 6, Byers 11, Goode 17, Blalock 8, Ingram 4, Wray 15, W. Brown 2, Hager 1. NG (57) - Mackey 12, Whis- nant 4, Friday 15, Saylors 8, Watson 7, Coleman 9, Clemmer 2. Jayvees Run Mark To 5-0 Kings Mountain High’s jayvee cagers ran their record to 5-0 during the past week with victories over Shelby and North Gaston. The Little Mountaineers, coached by Danny McDowell, scored an exciting 85-82 victory over Shelby Friday at the KMHS gym and defeated North Gaston 70-35 Tuesday in Dallas. Frank Parker tmsed in a season-high 32 points Friday to lead four double digit scorers against Shelby. David Hager ad ded 17 points and Avery Grier i|pd John Barnett 11 apiece. Hager also had a big defensive game, pulling down 12 re bounds. Grier and Parker added nine apiece and David Peeler and Barnett had eight and seven assists, respectively. Coach McDowell called the game a “real old-fashioned shootout.” Kings Mountain jumped out to a 14-4 lead in the first five minutes but by the end of the first quarter Shelby had cut the margin to 19-16. Kings Mountain led 46-43 at the half and the game was tied at 61-all after three quarters. ‘The fourth quarter was a pressure cooker,” said McDowell. ‘This was a very well played game and had a lot of ex citement. We had several players to play an outstanding game.” Parker scored most of his points from the foul line, where he hit 20 of 24 attempts. Hager and Grier picked up the scoring slack inside after Shelby’s defense cut off the Little Moun ties’ outside shooting. ‘This game was played with a lot of emotion,” said McDowell. ‘The team just refused to lose. I was very proud of them. It was the biggest win for us so far this season.” Grier scored 18 points and Parker 16 Tuesday night as McDowell played everybody. Eleven different players scor^ for the Mountaineers. Kings Mountain led by 17-4 after the first quarter, 31-17 at the half and 46-23 going into the fourth quarter. T was proud that everybody got to play,” said McDowell. ‘This was a total team win and I’m glad for all of my players.” The Little Mountaineers face another tough test Friday at 4:30 when they host Bums in a preliminary to the varsity doubleheader. FRIDAY GAME KM (85) — Parker 32, Hager 17, Grier II, J. Barnett II, Odems 6, Peeler 5, Barnett 2, Wheeler 1. S (82) — Ager 31, Manning 17, Turner .8, Williams 7, McDowell 7, Whittenburg 4, Hopper 4, Young 2, Mitchell 2. TUESDAY GAME KM (70) — Grier 18, Parker 16, Hager 9, C. Barnette 7, Wheeler 4, M. Champion 4, J. Barnett 3, C. Champion 2, Thompson 2, Birskonivch 2, Odems 1. NG (35) — Alexander 7, Rhyne 6, Mills 6, Hill 6, Paysour 5, Carpenter 5. Patriot Jayvees Win Kings Mountain Junior High managed oniy one victory in four games against Crest Mon day in opening-day action in the Western Junior High Athletic Association. The junior varsity Patriots scored an impressive 42-11 vic tory in a game played on the Patriot floor. In other action, the jayvee girls lost 15-11, the varsi ty boys lost 58-30 and the varsity girls lost 41-33. The jayvee boys, who scored their second win overall, opened the game with a fiill-couit press, which Crest couldn't penetrate. Coach Greg Paysour’s lads ran up a 27-3 halftime lead. Kings Mountain hit 46 per cent from the floor, with Tony Lewis hitting 66 percent and Lavar Curry 60. Curry led the scoring with 22 points and Lewis added 12. Coach Paysour cited Lewis and Greg Young for their re bounding and Richie Gold for his all-around floor game. He dished out seven assists. John Pettus aided the Patriot scoring with four points and Rodney Ballew and Eric Marable scored two apiece. “We looked a lot better against Crest than we did against Asheville in our opener,” said Coach Paysour. “We had a chance to play everybody at least one or two quarters.” - The junior high cagers return I to action today against arch rival Shelby with the varsity teams playing at home and the jayvees at Shelby. The varsity boys got off to a slow start, falling behind 30-8 at halftime. The Patriots stayed with the taller and mote ex perienced Crest team in the se cond half but the damage had already been done. Arnold Jordan led the KM scoring with eight points and Curt Prssley was the leading rebounder with 10. They just had too much height for us,” said first-year coach Rusty Cloninger. “1 don’t know if it was the first game jit ters or what. But we played them a whole lot better in the second half.” Both teams suffered first game jitters in the jayvee girls game. “It was just not a very good game,” commented Coach (Turn To Pago 4-A) f t f J V) m J t i 1 MOUNTAINEERS - Horo'o tho 1980-81 Kings Mountain High boys baskotball loam, which is oH to o lost start undor votoran coach lohn Blalock. Front row, loft to right, managor RJL Boll, Mox Brooks, limmy Brown, Bruco Young, Photo by Gary Stowart Vinco Rosoboro and Paul Ingram. Bock row. Wayno Brown. NovoUo Young, Domotrius Goods. Gorald Byors. Todd Wray, Torronco Blalock and Tommy Toms. MOUNTAINETTES - Horo's tho 1980-81 Kings Mountain High School girls baskotball toam. Front row. loft to right, Rhonda Kimblo. Thorosa Froomon. Bridgot Gloss. Glonda Adams, Angio Boll. Arjuano Curry and Angio Adams. Back row, Gloria Campboll. Eliaoboth Floyd. Priscillo Odums, Shoryl Goods. Dions Williams. Trina Hamrick, Linda Stows and Tammy Bolton. Hwy.74 JIM MARTIN "Cleveland County's" Finest BBQ THE HUNGRY PIG Catering Company, Inc. BBQ Shoulders Free (slaw & sauce) w/purchase of shoulder ORDER NOW ■ 487-9071 Pick-up at Parking Lot in front of TG&Y Kings Mountain Tues. Dec. 23rd - 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. EDDIE TILLMAN. IR.
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